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Calendar

The calendar below lists upcoming events sponsored by the Aetna Chair of Writing, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the First-Year Writing Program, or the Connecticut Writing Project.

Aetna Celebration of Student Writing

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing will open with student-led poster presentations from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m with awards ceremony at 5pm. Posters showcase student research from writing-intensive courses at UConn (including First-Year Writing courses) and/or on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. We especially welcome projects with roots in a UConn First-Year Writing or writing-intensive course.Celebrating Prize-Winning Student Work

Following the poster session, the Aetna Celebration of Student Writing will celebrate prize-winning academic and creative work by UConn students. To submit your writing for consideration, see the “Writing Contests” link: https://writing.uconn.edu/contests/first-year-writing/

Workshop on Scientific Writing Style

Thursday, May 2nd, 201901:00 PM - 02:00 PMStorrs CampusHBL, Room 1101

Professor Tom Deans will lead a workshop on two strategies for improving sentence-level style: creating old-to-new information links and editing for concision. We will work with sample passages from the sciences. Before the workshop, participants should read “The Science of Scientific Writing” https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing, although that is not required.

May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

Day 2 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

Day 3 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

W Teaching Orientation

Wednesday, May 15th, 201909:00 AM - 02:30 PMStorrs Campustba

This orientation outlines best practices for teaching writing in the disciplines. It features interactive workshops on building robust revision processes into W courses, designing effective assignments, responding to student writing, and handling the paper load. Our aim is not only to enhance the quality of student learning in W courses but also to explore strategies that can make each instructor’s writing-intensive teaching more effective and rewarding. This orientation is required of all graduate assistants assigned to assist in a 2000+level or to instruct a 1000-level W course.Go to: http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/w-teaching-orientation/for agenda and registration information

Day 4 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

Workshop on Scientific Writing Style

Thursday, May 2nd, 201901:00 PM - 02:00 PMStorrs CampusHBL, Room 1101

Professor Tom Deans will lead a workshop on two strategies for improving sentence-level style: creating old-to-new information links and editing for concision. We will work with sample passages from the sciences. Before the workshop, participants should read “The Science of Scientific Writing” https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing, although that is not required.

May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

Day 2 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

Day 3 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.

W Teaching Orientation

Wednesday, May 15th, 201909:00 AM - 02:30 PMStorrs Campustba

This orientation outlines best practices for teaching writing in the disciplines. It features interactive workshops on building robust revision processes into W courses, designing effective assignments, responding to student writing, and handling the paper load. Our aim is not only to enhance the quality of student learning in W courses but also to explore strategies that can make each instructor’s writing-intensive teaching more effective and rewarding. This orientation is required of all graduate assistants assigned to assist in a 2000+level or to instruct a 1000-level W course.Go to: http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/w-teaching-orientation/for agenda and registration information

Day 4 - May Boot Camp

Maintaining momentum on your dissertation can be tough, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Similarly, writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that get you through the complex challenges a dissertation presents. To this end, the Writing Center sponsors four-day writing retreats modeled on a similar event at Stanford.

The boot camps run during the January intersession, during the March Spring Break, and after the last week of classes in May. Participants arrive with their laptops, any notes or books, and their drafts–or simply ready to produce drafts. There is no tutoring, nor any lectures. The point is to commit to sustained, undistracted writing time. We supply coffee and tea each day to keep you fueled up.

Go to: https:/http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/boot-camps/ for more information and registration information.